la bouche be my lover acapella christmas

This week marks 20 years since Eiffel 65’s Blue (Da Ba Dee) hit its peak in the charts, signalling one of the last successes of Eurodance, the familiar sound that permeated nightclubs and radio stations throughout the 80s and 90s. As we tumble into a new decade more confused than ever, crowds of all ages are welcoming the return of simple and uplifting Eurodance songs with open arms. If you’ve been on a dancefloor in the past twelve months it’s clear that Eurodance – and its close sibling, old school trance – has made a comeback.

That connection may be one that techno purists are loathe to acknowledge, but it’s increasingly hard to ignore. It would be easy to shrug Eurodance off as a cheesy collection of one-hit wonders confined to our school disco memories and grainy images on MTV, but the genre was instrumental in popularising dance music with mainstream audiences. It’s all thanks to the return of Eurodance. Melodic synths, pianos and empowering, life-affirming lyrics: these aren’t qualities you’d typically associate with techno, but increasingly tracks fitting this description are going side-by-side into sets from some of the underground’s most relentless stalwarts, from Steffi to Herrensauna’s Cem.

La bouche be my lover acapella christmas